Sunday concert at BU features Mozart, Brahms

6:30 PM,
Jan. 30, 2013

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Brian Manker remembers the day in fourth grade when he had to choose a musical instrument to play in the band at Clayton Avenue Elementary School in Vestal.

"I had a conversation with my father in the car the day before. I was thinking about the violin, and I asked him what he thought. He said, 'The cello is a nice instrument when it's played well.' That was the key in my mind," Manker said in an interview last week. "I guess he must have heard it played well and badly!"

Little did Manker know then that the cello would end up as his inspiration and his livelihood, taking him around the world as a performer ...